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WIT-NESSES:

Lo ATTORNEYS.

CHARLES II. WHIPPLE, OF WALKERVILIJE, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIG-NOR TO A. JD.

WILT, JR., OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

Specification of Letters Patent..

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lApplication filed April 23, 1914,. Serial No'. 833,832.

To all whom 'it may cancel-Q:

i /A Beitinown tliatIL'CriARLiis/I-I. WHIrPLE,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Walkerville, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new andl useful Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Twist-Drills and other Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact-description. This invention resides vin an automatic ma! chine which is prilnarilydesigned for the manufacture from blanks or from a bar of raw stock of twist drills, and which although capable of making reamers, xtaps and many other like articles is herein described mainly as an apparatus forfthe specific purpose of making twistV drills.

The invention involves improvements in the construction land operation of a machine of this character which is made the subject of, and illustrated in, a patent granted to l Abram I). Wilt, Jr., on December 6, 1,910, No. 978,097.-

` successively, there being a plurality of work In the said patented machine the several operations of cutting the stock and fashioning and finishing the drills are performed stations at which. the work in its vrdifferent stages is performed simultaneously. In other words, there is provideda tool holder or headv having a plurality of tools, and a blank car-r rier or turretfor holding the severed sections l of stock, `associated with'the same, and provided with chucks lor devices for holding the blanks in position to be operated on at the tool stations. The blanks, after being turned and severed from the stock, are received and .held by the chucks `and by the rotation of the blank carrier arelcarried from station to station where the work upon them is performed.

In this way, as all the chucks of the blank carrier are provided with blanks, a different stage in the work is being simultaneously carried on at each tool station, and then, by the rotation of the blank carrier the blanks are advanced to the next tool station for the next succeeding operation, or expelled from the machine, as the case may be.

The machine in question, moreover, differs from othersrin the prior art bythe fact that there is a correlation between the work performed at one station and that performed at the next succeeding station. That is, in the making of such articles as twist drills, reamers and the like, if the operation involves the vided up into a plurality of stages or ope'rations, the first milling being a comparatively shallow out at one station, followed by successively deeper cuts at the succeeding stations until the proper depthv of cut is secured.

A'machine so organized as to divide up the work in stages is capable of turning out a great many dr1lls in a short space of time, but it is essential that they arrangement be such that there is-maintainedbetween the work performed at the successive stations a certain definite relation.v That is, if the milling cutters at Ione station are designed to cut thegroovesto a predetermined depth, andl then the work is to be carried on to the'neXt station where t the grooves are to be cut 'slightly deeper, it is essential that the tools at such succeeding station will traverse in the same time precisely the same path, and so on for the succeeding stations where the work is performed upon the same path.

, The general object of the machine, therefore, is tocut blanks from a continuous bar of stock and perform the various cutsv and operations thereon at succeeding tool stations, and finally eject from the machine the finished product, and the invention, subject of this application, consists in improvements on said machine, the nature and purpose of which will be described'in detail by reference to the accompanying drawings.

The objects of my invention may be accomplished by the use of the apparatus illustrated in these drawings as the best embodiment of the same of which I am now aware.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete machie. f

Fig. 2 is a top plan view ofthe same,

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation cipal part of Fig. 1.

i Fig. 4 is an enlarged pla-n of the blank carrier and a sectional plan of some of the conof the prinnected parts.

-leasing the cam operating shaft and the rotating shaft for the blank carrier.

Fig. 10 is a similar view of the same parts, with the blank carrier rotating shaft in a different position. y

Figs. 11, 12, 13, and 14 are enlarged illustrativc diagrams of apparatus shown to exhibit the relations and operations of the parts rather than their specific construction.

Fig. l5 is an enlarged detail of the cams for operating the blank carriers.

Fig. 16 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the means for ejecting the finished drill and for locking the collet that holds the blank.

Fig. 17 is a plan View of the means for feeding the stock to the machine and holding the same while being cut olf. Y

Fig. 18A is an enlarged detail of the means for limiting the feed ofthe stock.

Fig. 19 is atop plan View of the parts illustrated in Fig. 11.

Fig. 20 is a view in elevation of the same and other means with parts removed to illustrate the mode of operation. Fig. 21 is a part sectional view of a portion of the mechanism for gripping vin the blank carrier.

Fig. 22 is an end view ofthe machine looking from the right.

Fig. 23 is a sectional view on the line ,vam of Fig. 3.

Fig. 24 is a central longitudinal Section of the tool holder or head. *i 1 Fig.v 25 is a section on the saine on line y-'y of Fig. 3.

Fig. 26 is a broken section on line z-z of Fig. 3.A

Fig. 27 is a section through the shaft showing in elevation the tool operating de- Vices.

Fig. 28 is an enlarged detail of the means for adjusting and supporting the cutting tools, and also part of the driving mechamsm,

Fig. 29 is asimilar View showing the parts in a different position.

Fig. 30 is an enlarged detail view in seetional elevation of the means for locking and releasing the indexing mechanism.

Fig. 31 is an enlarged detail view in elevation of the same.

Fig. 32 is an enlarged detail of the tool vholding and adjusting devices.

Fig. 33 is an illustrative view of the. relieving cutters.

Fig. 34 is an enlarged detail oil the meehanism connected with the main operating shaft, showing means for making drills with increased or irregular twist.

Fig. 35 is a Sectional view a finished drill.

Fig. 3G is a part sectional detail of the cutter' regulating mechanism.

Fig. 37 is a side elevation of the. complete mechanism for this purpose.

Fig. 38 is an end view of the. same.

Fig. 39 is an en d and plan view of a linishcd drill.

In all of the figures oi ihe'se drawings, corresponding parts -are designated b v the same numerals.

The machine in general comprises a frame 1 upon which there are mounted a stationary tool holder or head 2, and a rotary reciprocating blank carrier or turret 3. and the of a portion of other'p'arts designed to move the latter to and fro with respect to the tools` to rotaie the same by successive steps. to l'eed the blanks and to perform the other functions incident to the operation of the, machine.

As a matter of convenience in illustratimi, the construction of the, device will be described in the order of the operations performed, as far as possible, beginning with the introduction of the blanks.

In the forward part of the machine, Fig. 17, is a tubular member 4, suitably supported in the line of feed and adapted to receive and frictionally engage the stock 5 in theform of a continuous rod. The tube 6 for operating the chuck or collet S), by which the stock is clamped and held during the return movement of the member 4, surrounds the latter within the tube, 17. The chuck or collet 9 is operated by a sliding collar 7 on the tube 17 through the. medium of the bell crank levers 8', and an arm 155, the end of which engages the collar 7, slidlut lill

ing between fixed stops 34 on a reciprocating bar 18. The levers 8 are actuated by a cam on the collar 7, and operate to shift the tube 6 longitudinally in relation to the outer sleeve 10, the latter being provided with a tapering shoulder 11 engaging the collet 9 and clamping the same against the stock bar. The stock holding tube 4 is reciprocatcd through the medium of an arm 12. the end of which engages a collar 13 on the. said tube. These parts are substantially the same as in the prior patent almvereerred lo, but

1n order to effect a longitudinal adjustment of the entire stock feed mechanism to ac commodate drills of different lengths, there is employed a ring 14 screwed to a rotating support and lcarrying a pinion 15 engaging with a rack tube 16 on the stock feed device. By turning the pinion 15, the position of the shell' 17, with reference to the tool holder or head 2, is varied, and the position of stock fed'for each drill is accurately determined.

As the means for operating the arm 12 and the controlling device 155, the rod 18 connected with the movable blank carrier is used. In this Way a direct pull on the 4feed shell and tube 4 is secured, and a positive feed of the proper length is accom plished, which, by means of the usual cam drum mechanism, cannot always be assured.

lVhen the stock., by the above described or other suitable means, has been properly adn vanced and gripped by the chuck or collet 9, it is rota-ted by the gears 19, 126 and 146 of Fig. 23,` arrangedL in the Stationary head and engaging with the gear 20 on the main driving shaft 4() of the machine. The limit of forward movement of the stock is regulated by the auxiliary means illustrated in detail in Figs. 11 to 13 and 18 and 19, which device is used asa supplement to the bar 18 in the performance of this function. rfhismechan nism consists of a sliding bar 21, having a properly cut end, shown in Fig. 18, to receive the pointed end of the stock, and a weight 22 tending to hold the end of the bar normally in the path of the stock at a predetermined distance froin the end of the sleeve 10. When the advancing end of the stock encounters the bar 21, it is arrested at' precisely the' point which determines the length of the blank for a drill.

At a short distance from the end of the sleeve 10, Fig. 11, is a cutting tool 23, mounted on a tool post or sliding block 24 and adapted to be pushed into operative. engagement with the stock bar by means of a cam 25, which in turn is operated by a swinging arm 26 pivotally mounted on a block 27 secured to the sliding bar 18. When this latter bar is drawn backward by the corresponding movement of the blank carrier 3` the pivoted arm 26 slides freely in the side of the cam 25, as will be seen from an examination of Fig. 13, but when the bar 18 is advanced the arm 26, by reason of the block 27 is held in a position to slide along the edge of cam 25 and pushes the latter forward against the tension of a spring 82, and with it-the block and the cutter 23 which cutsoff a blank from the stock.

In practice, a` suitably supported guide tube 28, shown in Fig. 19, receives the advancing stock and supports it firmly while` it is being cut by the tool 23. lt may be stated that the means for turning down the drill stock, when used, should be inserted at this, point in lieu of the tube 28, or any other device known in the art may be used for turning and receiving the stock.

During the time that the stock is being cut, the blank carrier is advancing, and, at the proper moment, it comes into engagement with an arm 29 Figs. 11-13 rigidly connected with a sliding rack bar 30, see Fig. 18, which engages a pinion 31 in gear with a rack cut inthe bar 21. The bar 30 is thus moved and the bar 21 drawn out of the path of the travel of the stock and the advancing blank carrier and the end of the stock caused to enter the chuck 32, which, by means of a jaw member' or collet 33, Fig. 16, iscaused to grip the same. In this way, by each'forward movement of the carrier 3 a blank is picked up by one of the chucks lia @till and b a rotation and reci rocatinomotions of said carrier, is moved step by step to each tool or tool station to be operated upon by the instruments thereat.

-In illustration of this latter mechanism, reference is most conveniently made to Fig. 14, i-n which the several parts are shown in operative relation, their specific form being modified in some particulars from that shown in the other figuresv to betterexplain their nature yand purpose.

The blank carrying device 3 in the general form of a conical support, is rotatably mounted on a shaft 35, together with which it is adapted to reciprocate. A sleeve 36 is secured to the carrier by means of a shouldered end and is provided with a screw thread 37, which engages a. nut 38, which, in turn, engages with a worm pinion 39 by `means of which said nut is rotated to shift @tit gears and clutches shown in the figures under consideration. The shaft 40, with tight l and loose pulleys 41, carries two worm pinions 42 and 43 which engage gears 44 and 45. The gear 44 is on a shaft 46, gearing with a spindle 47, carrying the gear 45, through a small pinion 48 on shaft 46 and a large gear 49 on the spindle 47, which is normally free to turn on said spindle.

There is also, a large and loosely mounted gear wheel 50 on the spindle 46 geafing with the pinion 51 fixed to spindle 47, and with the shaft carrying said pinion 51 there also engages a pinion 52 fixed to the spindle 113 of the worm pinion 39. 'lfhe spindle 46 also carries a worm pinion 53 engaging with a gear 54 on a sleeve loose on shaft 56 and as shown in Fig. 9, connected thereto by a clutch, splined thereto, which for convenience and readiness of explanation is shown as a simple toothed clutch 55v in Fig. 14.

The sleeve carrying the gear 54 is also geared by means of a pinion 57 with one clement 58 of a Slip clutch 59 on a shaft 60.

On the shaft 60 are xedly mounted two cam wheels 61 and 62 operating spring actuated plungers 63 and 64, connected with rocking levers 65 and 66 that are pivotally connected, respectively, to a clutch 67 fixed to spindle 46 and a clutch 68 keyed to spindle 47. An index wheel 69 with four equidistant indentations or stops, is also, secured to the spindle 60.

' The blank carrier 3 car-rios a gear wheel 104, with which engages a pinion 124 on the shaft 56, and by such means is caused to revolve one sixth of a complete turn for each revolution of the shaft 56. The pinion 124 has flanges which embrace the sides of the gear wheel 61, so that the blank carrier 3 and the shaft 56 move in unison. The pinion 53 revolves continuously, being driven by the shaft or spindle 46 which receives its power directly from the shaft 40 through the worm 42 and gear 44, but the shaft 56 revolves intermittently, operating at the extreme backward movement of the blank carrier by reason of the clutch 55. In practice a safety clutch 83 is employed with the shaft 40 between the pulleys and the worm pinion 42. This is shown in Fig. 4.

As above stated, the index wheel 69 on shaft .has four notches which are engaged by a pawl 84, mounted on an oscillating The said pawl is provided with a. projecting arm 88, Fig. 15, which engages alternately with a cam 165 and the beveled disks 89 and 90, all fixed to the longitudinally movable shaft 56. At the opposite end of thc shaft is a lever arm 70, which, on the backward movement of the shaft 56, engages a beveled disk 71. i

The shaft is normally prevented from rotating by means of a stop 72 engaging a notch 166 on a wheel 73 fast to said shaft, see Fig. 31. The shaft, however, operates a slide 74, through the medium of a sleeve 75, see Fig. 4,' fixed theretoLand carried by the slide is arocking arm 76, an extension of which is provided with a spring actuated pivoted dog 77 adapted to be engaged by the forward beveled end of a shouldered spring plunger 7 8. contained within the slide.

On the forward movement of the blank carrier and shaft 56 the spring 79 surrounding the plunger 78 is compressed by engagement with stop 85 and cocked or retained by means of a pivoted spring pawl 80. On the backward or return movement of the slide this pawl 80, when near the extreme limit of its travel,- encounters a fixed stop 86'by means of which it is released from the shoulder of the plunger, which latter, under the action of the spring 7 9, pushes back and rldes over the spring dog 77. This rocks the arm 7 6, 'frees the stop 72 from the shaft 56, and permits the latter to make a complete revolution with a resultant one-sixth rotation of the blank carrier 3.

In order to prevent the stop 72 from reengaging with the wheel 73 when the lever 76 is operated and before the said wheel has time to move the notch out of position, a pivoted arm 87 actuated by a spring 167, is carried by the lever 76 and strikes the disk 73 the instant lever 76 is moved, and prevents the stop 72 from rentering the notch should the lever rebound.

By the rotation of the shaft 56 the cam 1.65 1s turned through a complete revolution, by which action the pawl 84 is freed from the index wheel 69, and the latter 'permitted to make one quarter turn,as the pawl drops into the next succeeding notch. In this position of the shaft 60 the cam 61 permits the plunger 63 to move horizontally and operates to shift the clutch membei1 67 into engagement with the wheel 50, and the high speed forward movement of the blank earrier is effected by the transmission of power from shaft 40, through pinions 42 and 44, gear'wheels 50 and 51, the shaft 113 to the v pinion 39.

Soon after this operation has begun the beveled disk 89 comes in contact with the pawl 84 and again releases the index wheel 69, permitting the same to make another quarter revolution. By this4 movement the cam 61 effects the disengagement of clutch 67 with the wheel 50, while cam 62 is turned to a position in which it moves the plunger 64 and brings the clutch 68 into engagement with the wheel 49. This imparts to the blank carrier 3 the slow forward movement, which is demanded by the cutting operation to which at this time the blanks are subjected.

After this operation has progressed for a given time, the continued forward movement of the shaft 56 brings the beveled disk 90 into engagement with pawl 84 and the wheel 69is released and permitted to make a third quarter revolution. By this operation the clutch 68 is moved from the gear 49 into engagement with the gear 45, whereupon the worm pinion 39 is caused to impart to the blank carrier a quick reverse or backward movement. l

On the return movement of the shaft 56 the beveled disk 71, which, as will be seen from Fig. 8, has merely turned the pawl 70 on its bearings by its former movement, operates to'lift the pawl and to again release the index wheel, permitting the latter to make its fourth quarter turn and thereby bringing the clutch' 68 into its intermediate or neutral position'in which it engages y mariana movements it shall be positively held and guided. For this purpose there are on the carrier 3 projections 156 which may obviously be made adjustable, forward, backward and sidewise, if so desired, andthese stops register with guide ways 157 in a stationary part of the machine. lWhen by the means above described the blank carrier is turned roughly to the proper extent, the stops 156 engage with the guide ways and vdetermine with great accuracy the exact position of the device in its movement toward the cutters.

By the operations and devices thus far described, the blank stock has 'been intermittently fed into the machine and cut o' .in sections. These sections have been successively taken up by the chucks of the blank carrier, intermittently reciprocated and revolved to present them to the severaltools which cut the grooves and perform the other operations which they require. After the blanks have thus been successively presented to all the working or tool stations, they are ejected from the chucks and dropped into a suitable receptacle as finished pieces. 'lhe mechanism for effecting the operation of gripping andl ejecting the blanks or drills from the chucks will now be described.

At the proper points on the blank carrier there are mounted tubular members 91, Fig.

16, capable of rotation, but not of independent longitudinal movement. Within these members are tubes 92 carrying at their forward ends the chucks 33 and retained in position by nuts'93 at their rear ends. On each of said tubular members 91, nearthe rear ends of the same, is secured a tubular casing 94, within whichv are pivoted levers 95 vwith short cam shaped ends. @ver the tubular casings are sliding covers or shells 96. carrying at their inner forward ends cam surfaces 97 with inclined and flat faces.

Referring now to Figs. 11 to 13, and 21, it will be seen that on a shaft 98, which is capable of a limited longitudinal movement, there are two arms 99, one rigid and the otherpivoted that extend between the forward end of the shell orl cover 96 and the solid part of the blank carrier. rllhese arms permit the blank carrier to revolve, but always liel between the shells 96 and the carrier. The sleeve 102, which carries these a rms is capable of partial rotation on the shaft 98, and to hold the arms in proper position with relation to other parts, the pvoted arm is acted upon by a spring plunger 125 which acts to hold both arms in fixed position against a suitable stop.

When the blank carrier is moved forward, as for example, to cause one of the chucks to receive. a. blank cut from the stock, the arms 99 engage the shell 96, tend-ing to press it backward over the tubular casing 94C and bring the cam 'surfaces 97 over the ends of the cam levers 95. By this means the ends of the latter are caused toengage the nuts 93, which are screwed to the tube 92 and force back the latter a short distance. This draws the chuck 33 into its casing and grips the blank which has entered it.

ln order to insure the proper action of the cam levers 95 in thus locking the chuck, the rod 107, Figs. 11 and 12, carries a spiral spring 100 which engages a sleeve 101 loose on the said rod. When the 'blank carrier advances, a stop ring` 108 compresses this spring by engagement with a pawl 103 carried by the sleeve 101. Normally the head of the pawl lies in the path of the stop ring 108, but by the advance of the lat-ter the pawl is forced into engagement with an adjustable fixed stop 105, which turns it and causes it to slip from said ring, releasing the spring and causing the sleeve 101 to strike shoulder or projection 106. The sleeve, being capable of longitudinal movement with the shaft 98, the sudden release of the spring acting upon it imparts an impact that drives levers 99 against sleeve 96 and insures the proper engagement of the cam levers with the cam surfaces 97.

Within the tube 92 is a spring actuated sliding rod 109, Fig. 16, the rear end of which projects through the nuts 93 and the forward end of which projects through into the chuck 33 in the form of, a pin 110. Near the backward limit of travel of the rod 109 its end comes into engagement with a stationary stop 111, Figs. d and 6, which forces the rod forward and ejects the finished blank or drill from the chuck 33.

In its movement toward the fixed stop 111, however, the shell 96, as 'shown in Fig. 6, is-engaged by two spring actuated arms 112, carried by the fixed support for the stop 111, and by means of such arms is forced forward, whereby the cams or projections i 97 are carried away from the ends of levers 95, releasing the latter and thereby loosening the finished blank in the chuck 33 and permitting it to be ejected by the rod 109.

lt will be borne in mind that the blank carrier does not revolve until it is nearly or quite atits normal rear position. ln opera? tion, therefore, while the chuck containing the finished drill will be operated and its plunger advanced by the stop 111, the part 96 of the next succeeding chuck will be revolved in between the spring actuated arms 112, and in order tha't the stop 111 may not interfere with such movement', its end is beveled, as shown in Fig. 5, so that it will be merely turned aside by the end of rod 109. When the blank carrier has advanced and again returned this particular rod 109 will engage with the stop 111.

In the process of cutting grooves in drills, 

